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Effects of adlay (Coix lachryma-jobi L. var. ma-yuen Stapf.) hull extracts on the secretion of progesterone and estradiol in vivo and in vitro
Shih Min Hsia, Chih Lan Yeh, Yueh Hsiung Kuo, Paulus S. Wang, Wenchang Chiang
Adlay (Coix lachryma-jobi L. var. ma-yuen Stapf.) has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine for dysfunction of the endocrine system. However, there have been few studies on the effects of adlay seed on the endocrine system. In the present study, both the in vivo and in vitro effects of methanolic extracts of adlay hull (AHM) on progesterone synthesis were studied. AHM was partitioned with four different solvents: water, 1-butanol, ethyl acetate, and n-hexane. Four fractions, namely, AHM-Wa (water fraction), AHM-Bu (1-butanol fraction), AHM-EA (ethyl acetate fraction), and AHM-Hex (n-hexane fraction), were respectively obtained. Granulosa cells (GCs) were prepared from pregnant mare serum gonadotropin-primed immature female rats and were challenged with different reagents, including human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG; 0.5 IU/ml), 8-bromo-adenosine-3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate (8-Br-cAMP; 0.1 mM), forskolin (10 μM), 25-OH-cholesterol (10 μM), and pregnenolone (10 μM), in the presence or absence of AHM (100 μg/ml). The functions of steroidogenic enzymes, including protein expression of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR), cytochrome P450 side chain cleavage enzyme (P450scc), protein kinase A (PKA), and aromatase activity, were investigated. The expression of StAR mRNA was also explored by using real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. In the in vivo study, AHM decreased plasma progesterone and estradiol levels after an intravenous injection of AHM (2 mg/ml/kg). In the in vitro studies, AHM decreased progesterone and estradiol via inhibition of (i) the cAMP-PKA signal transduction pathway, (ii) cAMP accumulation, (iii) P450scc and 3β-HSD enzyme activities, (iv) PKA, P450scc and StAR protein expressions and StAR mRNA expression, and (v) aromatase activity in rat GCs. These results suggest that AHM decreased the production of progesterone via mechanisms involving the inhibition of the cAMP pathway, enzyme activities, and the protein expressions of P450scc and StAR in rat GCs.
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Hsia, S. M., Yeh, C. L., Kuo, Y. H., Wang, P. S., & Chiang, W. (2007). Effects of adlay (Coix lachryma-jobi L. var. ma-yuen Stapf.) hull extracts on the secretion of progesterone and estradiol in vivo and in vitro. Experimental Biology and Medicine, 232(9), 1181-1194. https://doi.org/10.3181/0612-RM-306
Effects of adlay (Coix lachryma-jobi L. var. ma-yuen Stapf.) hull extracts on the secretion of progesterone and estradiol in vivo and in vitro. / Hsia, Shih Min; Yeh, Chih Lan; Kuo, Yueh Hsiung; Wang, Paulus S.; Chiang, Wenchang.
In: Experimental Biology and Medicine, Vol. 232, No. 9, 10.2007, p. 1181-1194.
Hsia, SM, Yeh, CL, Kuo, YH, Wang, PS & Chiang, W 2007, 'Effects of adlay (Coix lachryma-jobi L. var. ma-yuen Stapf.) hull extracts on the secretion of progesterone and estradiol in vivo and in vitro', Experimental Biology and Medicine, vol. 232, no. 9, pp. 1181-1194. https://doi.org/10.3181/0612-RM-306
Hsia SM, Yeh CL, Kuo YH, Wang PS, Chiang W. Effects of adlay (Coix lachryma-jobi L. var. ma-yuen Stapf.) hull extracts on the secretion of progesterone and estradiol in vivo and in vitro. Experimental Biology and Medicine. 2007 Oct;232(9):1181-1194. https://doi.org/10.3181/0612-RM-306
Hsia, Shih Min ; Yeh, Chih Lan ; Kuo, Yueh Hsiung ; Wang, Paulus S. ; Chiang, Wenchang. / Effects of adlay (Coix lachryma-jobi L. var. ma-yuen Stapf.) hull extracts on the secretion of progesterone and estradiol in vivo and in vitro. In: Experimental Biology and Medicine. 2007 ; Vol. 232, No. 9. pp. 1181-1194.
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The publishing industry has been in a state of flux for years now. Bookstores are closing. Amazon is ever-expanding, becoming a publishing entity itself. But are people even reading books anymore?
Yes they are: now more than ever. They read in print and on screens (phones, tablets, phablets, e-readers). And with thousands of writers publishing their work both traditionally and independently every month, the number of books available is staggering. There aren't enough lifetimes to read them all!
Unfortunately, due to the self-published glut, novels sell for 99 cents. Or they're free with Amazon Prime / Kindle Unlimited. Small presses who charge more for their titles can't compete. They eventually fold.
I received word last week that Musa Publishing is going out of business. I've enjoyed working with my Musa editors. They were completely invested in making my two novellas the best they could be.
The bad news: another quality small press is gone. The reviews I received for my Musa titles will also be gone as those titles are removed by Musa's distributors. But here's the good news: the rights to Immaterial Evidence and Yakuza Territory have reverted to me, which means I can republish them independently. I get to compose new cover art, which is something I always enjoy, and I can market them myself -- scheduling spontaneous sales whenever I see fit.
Unfortunately, I won't have the privilege to work with my Musa editor on the next Charlie Madison novella, but I'm looking forward to seeing where Death Duel ends up. I'll keep you posted on that.


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Where is "Gallito" Vazquez in Mexico's World Cup roster?
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With the recent list of 28 players being called up to the 2018 World Cup, questions have been asked (when don't they) as to why some players have been left out. One of the biggest ones being the 2014 World Cup defensive midfielder Jose Juan "Gallito" Vazquez, who arguably made a huge difference the entire 2014 World Cup. His absence during the emotional fourth match vs Holland showed how much Gallito Vazquez was missed.
Gallito has not only made an impact with the national team, but with the various clubs he has engaged in, winning titles with Leon, Chivas and now Santos Laguna. Coming from playing in the lowest division in Mexico all the way to the highest has given Jose Juan Vazquez a pedigree that is unmatched in Mexican fútbol.
The question is — how is it that a successful player like Gallito is not even considered in Osorio's list of 28 players, which will eventually be narrowed down to 23? A player like him, one that commands the midfield, recovers, distributes, and helps create a balance between the defensive and offensive lines.
Osorio stated during his press conference that he took Molina over Gallito due to his "aerial" game and set-piece defending, something that has caused 33% of goals netted against Mexico. In the World Cup, all of Mexico's rivals have a height advantage over El Tri, reason enough to take Molina over Gallito. With only weeks to go until the World Cup, Gallito's only hope of being in Russia now is a miracle, something that would only be possible if any injuries take place leading into the World Cup.

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Voodoocult - niemiecka supergrupa muzyczna wykonująca thrash metal. Powstała w 1994 roku z inicjatywy niemieckiego gitarzysty, kompozytora oraz wokalisty popowego Phillipa Boa.

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Q: Why are my provided Test account credentials being ignored in google play console I have provided Test account credentials for my android applications Pre-launch report settings, however they are being ignored within the automatic tests.
Also the radio buttons automatically switch back to Don't provide credentials, when I return to the pre launch pages.
I have not provided Username/Password Resource IDs (Although these are marked as NOT mandatory)
What is the correct approach to get the pre launch report to employ the provided Don't provide credentials?

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In production engineering there are many applications where a product is processed on a circular or elliptical trajectory, for example, applying an adhesive onto a carrier.
This application example describes how you can realize an even circular or elliptical motion with a S7-1500T. The individual steps of the motion are programmed in the (FB) "MoveCircle2D" function block. The desired circular or elliptical motion can be configured via the block parameters. You can specify the parameters via a user-defined webpage. You can also execute and monitor the function via the webpage.
A circular motion in a Cartesian coordinate system is achieved by the overlapping of a sinusoidal motion (X axis) and a cosinusoidal motion (Y axis). The motion of both axes is created via cam disc synchronism.
The motion of both axes is created via cam disc synchronism. The cam discs required for this are create by the "MoveCircle2D" function block, based on the parameters at program runtime.


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Summary of Shapeholders
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The power that "shapeholders" – activist groups, politicians, thought leaders, regulators, media, influencers and opinion leaders – have to affect your business is rising, yet many executives remain blind to the consequences of their influence. They focus instead on producing profits for the benefit of shareholders and stakeholders. Former US congressman Mark R. Kennedy, now president of the University of North Dakota, explains that this leaves organizations vulnerable to attack. He demonstrates that shapeholders gauge their success by how they can change corporate behavior to conform to their agendas. They advocate on behalf of society's growing expectation that companies should make the world a better place. Kennedy provides a seven-step strategy to address the full spectrum of shapeholder expectations and demands. Although his book is somewhat verbose, getAbstract recommends Kennedy's scholarly, well-organized text as advice from a deeply informed veteran of shapeholder battlefields.
President of the University of North Dakota Mark R. Kennedy is a former US congressman from Minnesota and a former presidential trade adviser to George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
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Shapeholders are the activists, media outlets, political actors, thought leaders and regulators who strive to change corporate behavior to align with their goals. Though they have little personal stake in your organization, they greatly affect its opportunities and risks. Executives must understand the "paradox of profit": a laser focus on profit will hurt your firm in the long term.
For example, the Arthur Andersen accounting company's concentration on the bottom line led to it compromising the veracity of its financial reporting. The company went down with Enron when regulators uncovered its participation in concealing fraud and obstructing justice. In contrast, Starbucks gained when it responded to customers' concerns by prioritizing its ecological responsibilities. Starbucks collaborated with the shapeholder organization Conservation International to reduce the habitat destruction that coffee production caused and to improve coffee growers' economic prospects. Competitors such as Folgers now follow new sourcing standards to stay on par with Starbucks.
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Blockhouse Bay Medical Centre was established in the 1950s and grew from its original position in 3A Heaphy St to, at its peak in the late 80s, to occupy both Heaphy St and Blockhouse Bay Rd, with satellite clinics at Lynfield and Rosebank Rd. With retirements, things have been now rationalised back from what was then an A+E style centre to a true General Practice occupying the 503 Blockhouse Bay address with the other clinics having been sold off and the number of doctors now resting at 4 full time equivalents with 3 full time nurses.
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Now that it's dark for my drive home from work, I notice the moon phase more often. It was just a little sliver the other day. It was also really low in the sky so that little sliver looked really gigantic hovering just above the tree line.
We are coming up on a full moon just in time for Black Friday this year. No, thank you! I will stick with Steve Gunn and his creepy video for New Moon.
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We all know that learning math can be frustrating and difficult. Many people form the belief from an early age that they are "bad" at math. The truth is that, just like anything else, it matters greatly how you are taught. Since each lesson tends to build on the previous one, if you missed something on a Monday you are bound to be pretty lost by that Friday.
Fortunately, internet-based software from Stride Academy allows us to provide lessons tailored for each student and to evaluate their progress individually. That way, no one moves on from Point A until they are truly ready, advancing at the pace that is right for them.
Like the ULC reading program, our math program is available to students at any time, from any internet-connected computer. Once logged in they pick up where they left off and make as much progress as they like between United Learning Center sessions.


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Today, the Twin Cities still bear the name of the normal school. Our mission for Bloom Community School is to ensure we also uphold its spirit. The principles of innovation and progress are at odds with our increasingly narrow and standardized education options. What's more, the ongoing budgetary and financial constraints in the State of Illinois threaten to effectively undermine the wealth of cultural and educational resources in Bloomington-Normal. Bloom Community School seeks to reinvigorate that innovative and progressive spirit of education in our community through sustained and reciprocal relationships with community-based organizations and education providers ("Community Education Collaborators"). Through these committed and collaborative partnerships, education will surely bloom in new ways in our community.
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Midwest Wholesale Hardware Holdings has unveiled a new brand identity to reflect a renewed focus on providing total product solutions and technical support to retailers.
Midwest Wholesale Hardware Holdings owns national door hardware wholesalers Midwest Wholesale Hardware, Akron Hardware, Strauss Lock Distributors and Hardware Suppliers Inc. (HSI), but as a result of the brand revamp, all properties will now operate as Banner Solutions.
Company officials say the new business name and brand will enable it to provide comprehensive residential and commercial door hardware solutions to retailers more easily than ever.
Banner Solutions is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, and has sales office locations in Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina and Florida. It operates 11 distribution warehouses nationwide which can provide next-day delivery to more than 75 percent of the U.S.
Banner Solutions carries all major residential and commercial door hardware brands. The company says it has a full locksmith shop and can custom-manufacture door hardware to meet customers' needs.


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Nation Conversations: Liliana Segura and Laurie Penny on Hacktivism and Social Change
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From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, 2011 will be remembered as a year of youthful mass movements and popular revolts—none of which could have occurred without the surreptitious help of computer hacktivists.
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From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, 2011 will be remembered as a year of youthful mass movements and popular revolts—none of which could have occurred without the surreptitious help of computer hacktivists operating in the shadows of legality. In the latest installment of Nation Conversations, Associate Editor Liliana Segura sits down with reporter Laurie Penny, whose latest article in The Nation explores how Anonymous, LulzSec and other digital resistence groups are enabling widespread protest offline. For more, read Penny's article, Cyberactivism From Egypt to Occupy Wall Street.
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It's the Bryan Show!
For old times' sake, here's the archives of the playsheets for you to look over. These are now housed on Google Sites, which is good because they're now searchable! Wondering if or when I played an artist in the past? Do a search! Unfortunately, there's a few broken picture links that didn't survive the transfer over from Geocities, so I'll have to fix those some day.
1) Episodes 1 - 13 / 17 Sept 03 - 18 Feb 04 (show aired alternate Wednesdays, 13:30 - 15:00; later 13:00 - 15:00; also incl. one fill-in show);
2) Episodes 14 - 23 / 03 Mar 04 - 03 June 04 (show aired alternate months, Thursdays, 09:30 - 12:00, plus the last alt. Wed. show);
3) Episodes 24 - 32 / 01 July 04 - 08 Sept 04 (show aired Thursdays, 09:30 - 12:00; incl. 2 fill-in shows);
4) Episodes 33.3 - 44 / 13 Sept 04 - 29 Nov 04 (show aired Mondays, 10:00 - 11:30);
5) Episodes 45 - 56 / 06 Dec 04 - 28 Feb 05 (show aired Mondays, 10:00 - 11:30, plus a tape tracklisting, plus one fill-in);
6) Episodes 57 - 71 / 07 Mar 05 - 30 May 05 (show aired Mondays, 10:00 - 11:30, plus one fill-in);
7) Episodes 72 - 83 / 06 June 05 - 29 August 05 (show aired Mondays, 10:00 - 11:30; missed a week for school stuff)
8) Episodes 84 - 96 / 05 Sept 05 - 28 Nov 05 (show aired Mondays, 10:00 - 11:30)
9) Episodes 97 - 109 / 05 Dec 05 - 06 March 06 (show aired Mondays, 10:00 - 11:30, plus a show I had no hand in)
X) Episodes 110 - 146 May 2006 to August 2015 (Mostly fill-ins for Turn Up the Radio and Whatever's Cool With Me, and a brief weekly show April/May 2014)
XX) Episodes 147 - onward The most recent ones
If you just can't get enough of my playsheets, here's some old ones from the vault:
Sept - Dec 1998: About half the shows are from my Thursday noon-to-one timeslot, the rest are from my Monday morning, 10:00 - 13:00 timeslot. There's even a July and an August 1997, Monday nights, 23:00 - 02:00 playlists thrown in for fun.
Jan - May 1999: When I was hosting Monday mornings. The show was reduced (at my pleading) to 10:00 - noon. A few of the January shows may have been three hours, though.
June - Nov 1999: What were to be the end of my DJing for nearly four years.


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Q: Probability of even number of successes in a series of independent trials Consider a series of independent trials at each of which there is a success of a failure with probabilities $p$ and $1-p$ respectively. I am finding it difficult to derive the probability of even number of successes occurring at the nth trial. Any assistance will be much appreciated. Thanks

A: Use induction.  If $P_n$ is the probability of even number of successes in n trials, then
$$ P_n = p(1-P_{n-1}) + (1-p)P_{n-1}$$
This results in
$$ P_n = \frac{1+(1-2p)^n}{2}$$

A: The generating function for the probability of success in $n$ trials is
$$f(x) = (1-p+px)^n$$
The generating function for the cases where the number of successes is even is
$$\frac{f(x) + f(-x)}{2}$$
To find the total probability of success in an even number of trials, just set $x=1$ in the generating function:
$$\frac{f(1) + f(-1)}{2} = \frac{1 + (1-2p)^n}{2}$$

A: Since this follows a binomial distribution, your chance of a particular number of successes $s$ is
$$\binom{n}{s}p^s(1-p)^{n-s}$$
So you could take
$$\sum_{s=0}^{\lfloor\frac{n}{2}\rfloor}\binom{n}{2s}p^{2s}(1-p)^{n-2s}$$


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Referendum on Law Repealing Initiative 77 – Minimum Wage Amendment Act of 2018
BOARD OF ELECTIONS NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
The Board of Elections, at a Special Meeting held on Friday, November 9, 2018, formulated the short title, summary statement, and legislative text of the "Referendum on Law Repealing Initiative 77 – Minimum Wage Amendment Act of 2018." Pursuant to D.C. Code § 1-1001.16 (2016 Repl.), the Board hereby publishes the aforementioned formulations as follows:
REFERENDUM MEASURE
SUMMARY STATEMENT
Under current law, employers may pay tipped employees lower base hourly wages if the total received in wages and tips equals or exceeds the minimum wage for non-tipped workers. Initiative 77, approved by voters in June 2018, would incrementally increase the base wage for tipped employees by 2026 to the same amount guaranteed non-tipped employees. In October 2018, the District of Columbia Council voted to repeal Initiative 77 and maintain current law. If approved, Referendum 008 would reject the Council's repeal. Vote FOR Referendum 008 to reinstate Initiative 77. Vote AGAINST Referendum 008 to allow the Council's repeal to become law.
TEXT OF MEASURE
Shall the registered voters of the District of Columbia approve or reject section 2 of D.C. Act 22-489?
D.C. Act 22-489 — "Tipped Wage Workers Fairness Amendment Act of 2018"
"Sec. 2. The Initiative No. 77 – – Minimum Wage Amendment Act of 2018, effective October 11, 2018 (D.C. Law 22-163; 65 DCR 8513), is repealed."
Who is leading the Referendum effort?
The Save Our Vote campaign committee is leading the referendum effort, with support from the tipped workers, community members, community organizations, and clergy who are infuriated at the DC Council's decision to overturn Ballot Initiative #77.
Why did the DC Council overturn Ballot Initiative #77?
On June 18, 2018 Ballot Initiative #77 was passed by DC residents who voted in favor of giving tipped workers a fair base wage. The restaurant industry that funded DC councilmembers' campaigns lobbied the legislators and as a result, the DC City Council voted to overturn the Initiative on October 16. Fortunately, the majority of DC voters believe that democracy is not for sale, that people's votes matter and that they spoke clearly when they approved Ballot Initiative #77 to raise wages of workers in some of the lowest paid occupations. Therefore, the Save our Votes campaign was formed.
Do tipped workers oppose Ballot Initiative #77?
No. The majority of tipped workers – bussers, food runners, delivery drivers, valet drivers, nail salon workers, baggage handlers want a raise. Restaurant Opportunities Centers United has been working with tipped workers and high road employers across the country for years, leading the way to higher wages and better working conditions in the restaurant industry. Spreading fear and misinformation among higher paid tipped workers, the restaurant lobby has recently been mobilizing them against higher wages using the false narrative that higher wages means no tips and/or job loss.
However, those claims are misleading and the data and the real-world experiences tell a different story. The tipped wage in DC has increased without a decline in tips. There are currently 7 states with One Fair Wage for all workers, that have thriving restaurant industries with higher per capita sales revenues, higher restaurant job growth and equal or higher tipping rates than the states with a subminimum tipped wage. Tipping is part of the American culture and will not go away with a minimum wage increase.
Who is a tipped worker?
Anyone who receives more than $30 in tips per month can be considered a tipped worker by their employer, which allows the worker to be paid a sub-minimum wage. We have recently seen greedy owners recategorized their workers as tipped workers in order to pay them less. Ballot Initiative #77 will gradually eliminate the sub-minimum wage to prevent this from happening.
Nearly 70% of tipped restaurant workers are women. The sub-minimum wage for tipped workers is in effect legislated pay inequity for a predominately female workforce. This inequity is exacerbated when accounting for race and intersectional identities.
Tipped workers with a sub-minimum wage are twice as likely to live in poverty and rely on food stamps as the rest of the workforce. The restaurant industry is one of the largest growing industries in the nation, and the largest employer of minimum wage workers (1 in 12 Americans). Putting more money into the pockets of the growing number of low-income tipped workers, who will spend their additional earnings at local businesses, boosts the consumer spending that drives our nation's economy.
What is the Tipped Minimum Wage?
Under existing law, employers are allowed to pay tipped workers a lower hourly minimum wage. Currently, the minimum wage for tipped workers in DC is $3.89 per hour. If the worker does not collect enough tips to equal DC's prevailing minimum wage of $13.25 per hour, the employer must pay the employee the difference. That difference of $9.35 is what we call the "Tip Penalty." The restaurant lobby refers to it as a "Tip Credit" because it is to the employer's benefit – in that it allows them to pay their workers less. While the law requires employers to ensure everybody earns at least the full minimum wage, the Department of Labor data show that non-compliance is rampant—more than 80 percent. This complex system requires extensive tracking and accounting of tip flows, leaving tipped workers vulnerable to abuse and inaccuracy and increasing business risks and liabilities, which is another reason why One Fair Wage for all workers is the best enforcement mechanism.
For example, on a slow night a server collects only $25 in tips for 5 hours of work. Their pay for that evening would be $3.89 X 5 hours + $25 in tips = $44.45, or $8.89 per hour. With the Tipped Credit, the employer would be required to chip in an additional $4.36 per hour to the tipped employee so they end up making $66.25, which is $13.25 per hour for 5 hours. If the Tipped Credit didn't exist, that same worker would make $13.25 per hour in wages plus $25 in tips, so if they worked 5 hours and received $25 in tips, they'd make $91.25 instead of $66.25. The Tipped Credit allows employers to pay their worker less!
What is wrong with the Tipped Credit?
The unethical two-tiered minimum wage system, which allows business owners to outsource employee wages to the whims of customers, creates and perpetuates pay inequity, economic disenfranchisement, sexual harassment and other abuses of power. Worse, tipped employees pay less into Social Security, Medicaid, and State & Federal taxes because most employers tax their low wages not their declared tips.
The restaurant industry is the single largest source of sexual harassment claims in the U.S. because tipped workers are dependent on the generosity of customers for their income, rather than their employers. As a result, they must often tolerate inappropriate behavior from customers, and are vulnerable to sexual harassment from coworkers and managers. While 7% of American women work in the restaurant industry, it is responsible for 14% of all sexual harassment claims to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Does Ballot Initiative #77 eliminate tipping?
NO! There is nothing in Ballot Initiative #77 about eliminating tips. Tipping is an American custom that still exists in the States that have eliminated the sub-minimum wage. Rather, restaurant owners told their employees that they'd remove the tip line on receipts and force customers to pay a service charge. A service charge is not a tip and it's the property of the establishment. Therefore the notion of "Save Our Tips" is predicated on greedy restaurant owners preventing customers from tipping, not Ballot Initiative #77. Rather, Ballot Initiative #77 provides tipped workers with a higher base pay ($15 an hour by 2026) plus tips on top.
One Fair Wage Facts:
7 states currently have "One Fair Wage," meaning they do not have a tip credit or a sub-minimum wage. They also have thriving restaurant industries where customers continue to tip. The 7 states include: California, Oregon, Alaska, Washington, Montana, Minnesota & Nevada
The federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13 and has been at this rate since 1991
The tipped minimum wage in DC is currently $3.89
The full minimum wage in DC is currently $13.25
BACKGROUND DETAILS ON THE ISSUE
Ballot Initiative #77, proposed by Restaurant Opportunities Center-DC (ROC-DC), sought to eliminate the sub-minimum wag by slowly increase the minimum wage for tipped workers to $15/hr by 2025. An increase in the tipped wage would ensure that wages are coming directly from the employer and not subsidized by customer tips/gratuities. Although employers are required to make sure tipped workers receive the full min wage when tips don't make up the difference, tipped workers are extremely vulnerable to wage theft, in addition to poor enforcement of the District's current wage laws.
• On June 19, 2018, DC voters approved Ballot Initiative #77 by 56%, a wide margin of 11.5 percentage points.
• On October 16, 2018, under the pressure of restaurant industry lobbyists, 8 DC Councilmembers voted on to repeal Ballot Initiative #77. The eight DC Councilmembers who voted to repeal Ballot Initiative #77 were:
Chairman Phil Mendelson
At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds
At-Large Councilmember David Grosso
Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans
Ward 4 Councilmember Brandon Todd
Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie
Ward 7 Councilmember Vincent Gray
Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White Sr.
• On October 30th, a Referendum Campaign Committee called "Save Our Vote No DC Council Repeal of Initiative 77" was formed to give DC voters the final say.
• On November 27, the Campaign will receive the Circulating Petitions from the DC Board of Elections
Overview of Referendum Process:
• Referendums can be introduced by voters to overturn nearly any law passed by the DC Council
• The Referendum Process starts when the Council Chairman transmits a DC Law to Congress for the 30 legislative day review (also known as the Congressional Review Period).
• The District's "Home Rule Charter" requires all laws passed by the 13-member DC Council be reviewed by Congress before becoming law. (A legislative day is any day when either the House of Representatives or Senate is in session)
• The campaign must collect valid signatures from 5% of the registered voters in 5 of the 8 Wards of the District (roughly 25,000 signatures)
Once the Referendum Petition is submitted and has been certified, the Board of Elections must schedule a special election within 114 days
• In the special election, DC Voters will be asked to vote "YES" if they approve of the Referendum & Repeal of DC Council's Repeal law or "NO" if they reject the referendum and support DC Council's repeal of Initiative 77
• If DC voters choose YES and repeal DC Council's law, the DC Council may not legislate on the issue for 365 days
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Not Just The Decision Table Guy
The History of Modeling Decisions using Tables (Part 2)
Summary: Tabular models for decisions is a powerful technique highly relevant for business rules, business processes, business knowledge, and related areas. The now-familiar technique has a long and rich history dating at least to the 1950s, with a milestone standard in the 1980s, and a continuous evolution in the nineties and up to the millennium. It has ever since been a modeling technique well suited for business and business analysts. For whatever reason frequently forgotten and re-invented, on-going experience and developments with the technique have been widely practiced and well documented. In this month's column, Jan Vanthienen presents Part 2 in the series that brings the reader up-to-date on the rich history of tabular models for decisions.
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In Part 1 an overview was given of early developments and fundamentals of tabular decision modeling, and of the conversion and algorithms era, building up to the 1982 Report of the CODASYL Decision Table Task Group: A Modern Appraisal of Decision Tables.[1] It is worthwhile to have a deeper look into this report (Figure 1) defining so many of the fundamental concepts, best practices, notation, kinds of tables, development methods, definitions, structures, application areas, etc.
Figure 1. The 1982 Report of the CODASYL Decision Table Task Group
The Decision Table Task Group was initiated in 1973 by CODASYL's System Committee. CODASYL (Conference on Data Systems Languages) is mostly known for its work on the development of the COBOL language and its activities in standardizing database interfaces (the CODASYL Data Model), but it also worked on a wide range of other topics. The Decision Table Task Group was chaired by Jonas Rabin from 1973-1975, by Paul Jorgensen from 1975-1978, and by Nick Marselos from 1978 until publication of the report.[2]
1. Basic concepts
A decision table is a tabular representation used to describe and analyze decision situations, where the value of a number of conditions determines the value of a set of actions.
The tabular representation of the decision situation is characterized by the separation between conditions and actions, on one hand, and between subjects and entries (condition or action values), on the other. The decision table thus consists of four elements: condition stub, action stub, condition entries, and action entries. Every table column (or row) indicates the action value(s) for a specific combination of condition values.
1.1 Definition
A decision table is a tabular representation of a decision problem. A decision table can be defined as a triple D = (C,A,R) where C is a set of conditions, A is a set of actions, and R is a set of rules, i.e., R is a relation that maps C into A so that A=R(C).
The condition set
C is a set of conditions C(1),C(2),C(3),… relevant to the decision. Each condition C(i) consists of a condition subject CS(i) and a set of condition alternatives [CA(i,1), CA(i,2), …]. In the first decision tables (called limited entry decision tables) the set of alternatives was limited to Yes/No, but soon other alternatives were allowed, e.g., a range of values for Age: <20, 20-60 (both included), >60.
The action set
A is a set of actions A(1),A(2),A(3),…. Each action A(i) consists of an action subject AS(i) and a set of action alternatives [AA(i,1), AA(i,2), …]. Sometimes the alternatives are limited to X and — (to save space), but any action alternatives (e.g., numeric values) are allowed. Depending on the purpose of the decision table, there can be one action with multiple alternatives only (e.g., in a classification decision), one limited true/false action only (e.g., in an eligibility decision), or multiple actions.
R is a relationship that maps points of the condition space CS (Cartesian product of C) into points of the action space AS (Cartesian product of A). The condition space is the set of all combinations of condition alternatives, whereas the action space holds all combinations of action alternatives. The relation R consists of a series of rules, each of which associates a point in CS with a point in AS.
1.2 An example
Figure 2. Expanded decision table
The table in Figure 2 shows all distinct combinations of the conditions Age and Sex and assigns them to CustomerType. The table is complete (if sex has only two distinct alternatives) and consistent (rules do not overlap). It is in expanded (canonical) form: every rule is a conjunction of single condition alternatives for every condition. Because some rules (i.e., columns) lead to the same outcome for every alternative of a specific condition (e.g., male or female in the last two rules), the expanded table can be represented more compact, without loss of meaning, as a contracted table (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Contracted decision table
1.3 Tabular representation
The table is represented in a horizontal or vertical format (rules in rows or columns), as shown in this excerpt from the report (pages 3-4):
Figure 4. Tabular representation in rows or columns
1.4 Completeness and consistency
The relation R is said to be a function from CS to AS if
The domain of R is CS, i.e., every point c in CS has an image R(c)=a in A.
The image of c under R is unique.
These requirements can be restated in terms of the decision table representation. First, the table must be complete, i.e., have a rule for every combination of condition alternatives. And it must be consistent, i.e., the rules must not overlap (they must be pairwise mutually exclusive).
From a semantic point of view, this also implies that each condition must be complete and consistent relative to the universe (at least one and only one condition alternative should be present for each possible value of its subject).
1.5 Entry types
Historically, limited entry types have been:
For conditions:
Y Yes (True)
N No (False)
— Irrelevant (The rule applies to any alternative of this subject.)
For actions:
X Execute (Do the action specified by the subject.)
— Do not do the action specified by the subject.
By the time of the CODASYL report, limited entry types were almost history, and conditions and actions could take on any of an extended range of alternatives (value ranges, lists, etc.).
It is, however, interesting to observe some other symbols that have been used in decision table notation but are often forgotten. These notations, of course, originate from the use of multiple Y/N conditions instead of value ranges for one condition, which leads to cumbersome logical implications. But they relate to a much more important topic: dependencies between condition alternatives!
Additional symbols are:
Y! True by implication
N! False by implication
# Undefined (do not test, cannot occur)
i Impossible column
Impossible rules could be removed from the table, although they are usually kept for the sake of completeness. Care must be taken, however, not to remove rules that should never happen, because that is different from will never happen. These notations were mainly used in limited entry tables, in order to express some logical consequences.
Allowing ranges of values instead of just Y/N largely diminished the need for these logical consequences, for example:
X < 10
In [10,30]
>=30
Figure 5. Simplifying limited entry conditions
This is a good case against using only Y/N entries for ranges of values. However, it also illustrates the concept of conditional dependencies — in this case, only logical dependencies — but it could be any kind of business rule! Be careful not to hide (or even neglect) the business rule but (instead) express it explicitly.
2. Types of decision tables
The most important question in describing types of decision tables is the question of overlapping columns.
In a pure single hit table, the rules in the table are mutually exclusive. The table is constructed in such a way that any combination of condition alternatives matches exactly one column/row. This makes an unambiguous decision possible and guarantees that all cases are handled by the table. That is easy for validation purposes.
Single hit tables occur in expanded or contracted form. In the expanded decision table, all combinations of condition states are explicitly enumerated, while in the contracted decision table, adjacent columns or groups of columns that only differ in the value for one condition and that result in the same action configuration are joined, thereby minimizing the number of columns. When all alternatives of a condition can be joined, the entry '—' (irrelevant) appears in the table. If all entries for a condition are '—' (or any of the derived implications indicated with '!'), the condition carries no relevant entries and is therefore redundant. It can simply be removed because the result does not depend on this condition.
Tables with overlapping columns are more difficult to validate. Because the columns of the table are not mutually exclusive, there is at least one combination of condition alternatives that matches two columns.
If the overlapping columns produce the same result, the table can still be called consistent, but there is some form of redundancy. This is not an immediate problem, but as with all redundancy, it might introduce inconsistency after future updates (lack of proper normalization). Figure 6 gives an example: the case (Phone,Non-US,Retailer) is present in 3 overlapping columns.
Type Of Order
Customer Location
Type Of Customer
Figure 6. A table showing redundancy
If the overlapping columns produce different and incompatible results (e.g., assigning two different classification results), the first hit convention is often used to enforce consistency. This means that the rules of the table have to be scanned one by one (usually from left to right, or top to bottom) until the first applicable decision rule is found. Sequence of the rules is involved now, and the table can hardly be called declarative! Only the first applicable rule will be considered to determine the action set and no further processing of the table occurs. Although the execution of the table is still consistent, validation in the modeling phase is very difficult. The table is often organized in such a way that exceptions are specified first, followed by more general rules. These tables also often contain a final ELSE rule to catch all remaining combinations. This means that they are complete by definition, but it is hard to determine if all intended relevant condition combinations are really present. The report explicitly recommends not to hide combinations in the ELSE rule.
Figure 7 is an example of a first hit decision table. The case (Y,N,Y) is overlapping, inconsistent, and resolved by the first hit convention. The cases (Y,N,N) and (N,N,N) are missing.
B>5
C=10
Figure 7. A first hit decision table
A specific class of tables with potentially overlapping columns are called multiple hit tables (not to be confused with the first hit convention). This is considered an alternative interpretation for inconsistent tables because one can imagine applications in which it is desirable to have more than one rule apply to a specific case. Every rule appropriate to a case will be executed (and the results will be added, listed, or whatever is appropriate in the given context). The table is often organized in such a way that general rules are specified first, followed by more specific rules. A scoring table in a credit scoring context is a good example of a multiple hit table.
A multiple hit table is actually a series of single hit tables and can be reworked into that series. Why then would we ever incorporate several tables into one multiple hit table? Because a number of conditions or actions are shared and the table may produce an interesting or compact overview of the entire decision. However, when no conditions or actions are shared, the table is just a collection of rules and can better be split into independent single hit tables.
A classification of different types of decision tables can be found in the table shown in Figure 8.
Table contains exclusive rules only?
N (some are overlapping)
Action values of overlapping rules are the same?
Action values of overlapping rules are compatible?
N (conflict)
Type of table
Single hit
Still consistent (but with redundancy)
Contradiction avoided by first hit convention
Multiple hit
Figure 8. A decision table of decision tables
3. Systems of decision tables
Most decision problems are too large to fit into one decision table and are therefore divided into problem segments which are then analyzed separately.
A decision table invokes another table by referring it. There are two forms:
Tables invoked by conditions
Sometimes it is convenient to have a condition in one table invoke another table (the subtable) and to have the subtable return a value that is needed by the invoking condition. This, of course, models decisions using criteria that are decided in lower-level decision tables.
Tables invoked by actions
A specific subset of decision logic (conditions, actions, and rules) can be grouped into a separate table and called from the actions of another table as a means to isolate (modularize) some decision logic.
Chapter 5 of the CODASYL report contains an elaborate example of a problem hierarchy with multiple subtables, as follows:
The concepts of a condition subtable and an action subtable are shown in the following figure:
Linkages between tables could be eliminated by replacing each reference by the invoked table itself (called 'expansion'), but this process is usually not desirable because it introduces intermixed conditions and actions, redundancy, complexity, etc.
The opposite of expansion is 'factoring'. One factors a decision table by making selected segments separate tables that are invoked from the original table. The selected segments must be proper subtables of the original table (i.e., corresponding to a semantic decomposition, see pp. 3-13 of the report).
4. Conversion algorithms
Chapter 4 of the report is an elaborate description of implementation and execution techniques. As this is oriented toward tool builders, it is outside the scope of this article.
5. Development methodology
In Chapter 5 of the report, modeling and development methods are described extensively. This is the longest chapter, and it describes, among other topics:
The role of decision tables in the systems life cycle
Criteria for good tables and design guidelines
Table development methods
Problem structuring methods using table systems
Implementation guidelines
Maintenance and extension
The purpose of the chapter is to define various methods and techniques for using decision tables, both to develop system products and for modeling uses of decision tables.
5.1 Criteria for good decision tables
For the orderly and effective use of decision tables, a number of criteria and guidelines are introduced. There are at least five global recommendations, with different subitems:
The importance of completeness
Optimal table size, readability, and factoring
Dealing with relations between conditions
The need for consistency
Format and representation
5.2 Table development methods
Composing decision tables can be done more effectively by using appropriate techniques. This will be elaborated in Part 3 of this series.
6. Education, examples, glossary and annotated bibliography
The report further contains a wealth of examples and educational topics, and concludes with a very complete overview of decision table literature up to 1982, with a summary of 500+ decision table publications.
… continued in Part 3
[1] Codasyl [82], "A Modern Appraisal of Decision Tables," Report of The Decision Table Task Group, ACM, New York, 322 pp., 1982.
[2] The report can be downloaded from: http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/prologa/publications.htm (read the reproducing policy). Of course, this is a 1982 report reflecting the state of the art at that time. Download an updated version of chapters 1-2 from: http://henry.beitz.org/pdfs/DTTG1982/report-1-2.pdf. More about the evolution since 1982 in the parts to come in this series.
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Jan Vanthienen	, "The History of Modeling Decisions using Tables (Part 2)" Business Rules Journal Vol. 13, No. 3, (Mar. 2012)
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About our Contributor:
Jan Vanthienen Professor in Information Management, K.U. Leuven
Jan Vanthienen is professor of information management at the Business Information Systems Group of KU Leuven (Belgium), where he is teaching and researching on business rules, processes and decisions. The area of business rules modeling, validation and verification, and decision modeling in the context of business process modeling has been his major area of research and expertise for many years. He is a regular speaker at BBC, where his nickname seems to be: not (just) the decision table guy.
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On Wednesday 8 July, the 14 anti-junta activists from the New Democracy Movement (NDM) were released after being detained for 12 days as a result of their peaceful anti-junta protests. The charges against them still stand.
Prachatai talked to seven student activists from Khon Kaen University about their life in prison and what they learned behind bars. They had all had their heads shaved in protest at being separated inside prison, but their determined gaze was still unwavering.
During our talk, the activists who were waiting to be interviewed wandered off to play soccer. It was probably their first match together after being released.
"Noi" - Apiwat Suntararak
What was life in prison like?
When I first walked in and saw the high walls, I was worried that what I had heard about prison was true, that it was just gonna be full of criminals and gangsters. We arrived at 2 am after we were arrested, and the wardens took good care of us from the first day.
When I woke in the morning, though, I was shocked at how everyone showered together, and I was too shy so I didn't shower at first. The bathroom is really low, you have to sit down and stick your head out. There's a guard watching the whole time, so I felt really pressured. There's also a lot of people lining up for the bathroom so you have to do your business real fast.
After a while we were separated into different zones of the prison. I was put into zone 3 with Pai and Triangle [Base's nickname]. They still took good care of us. The warden was vigilant but nice. He let us stay in a room with 11 people. The lights were always on, even at night, and it hurt my eyes and I kept waking up. It was also hot and crowded.
I also started to see what friendship between inmates was like. Wherever I walked, people would greet me and ask how I was. They found sleeping arrangements for each other. On the first night I was there, I saw that when an inmate had no place to sleep, another would share his cot.
Some inmates don't have any relatives, so their life is really hard. They have to work really hard to trade for food and other stuff. For example, they might do someone's laundry for a week in order to get a single cigarette.
Inmates also make a lot of stuff in there, everything from birdcages to paper bags. They're really beautiful and well-made, actually. We share the work. The sweets made in there are also really good. Zone 3 sweets, I guess, only available to a select few. They're sticky, chewy, wrapped in paper, and very delicious.
Did you get to meet other political prisoners?
No, I don't think so. Mostly I met those in robbery or murder cases. I don't think they're evil people; they're just regular people who made bad decisions at the moment, which ruined their lives. One of the inmates I talked with regularly told me his story. He went out to help a younger friend in a bad situation, and accidentally killed someone. He had just finished university and didn't know what he wanted to be yet. There's no one who is completely evil; society just needs to give them a chance. Most of the released inmates are rejected by society and they can't find a job, so they go back to doing what they did before, and end up in here again. It's a vicious cycle.
There's this other guy who's tattooed all over. It doesn't mean he's a bad guy. He's actually really goofy.
After the court said we would be released, all the other inmates were like, "You guys are going already? It'll be lonely here without you."
How did you feel when you came out to see your friends waiting for you outside the prison?
I wanted to cry, I was so happy. They've been fighting for and encouraging us from the outside the entire time. Fighting from the outside might be even worse than being in jail. They helped us with whatever they could, whenever they could. They brought so many gifts for us too. When I got to see their faces my heart was so full.
Anything else you want to say?
We're confident we did, and are doing, the right thing. There might be both people who support us and people who don't, but we still believe that our society should be free and our five values should be re-established in society.
"Arty" (Chusri) - Supachai Pukrongploy
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I was moved to Zone 5 with Rome and Nui. That made me feel really lonely. When all of us were together it was a fun team atmosphere, so I felt devastated when we were separated. I lived for the 20 minutes a day when I got to see the others and our visiting relatives. Twenty minutes a day to sustain me.
I was put in the area towards the front of the Zone. The prisoners from different Zones would eat together. I think Zone 3 operates like a socialist state, with the wardens doing whatever job they are most fit to do. Wardens get social welfare benefits, food, shower facilities, and equal pay. Of course, there's a lot of marginalized prisoners who don't have anyone to visit them.
As a law student, what do you think of political prisoners in jail?
It's a normal thing in our polarized society. Of course they'd get jailed. Their freedoms are restricted. They're not criminals in the sense that they did something violent like killing, raping, or stuff like that. They're prisoners of conscience. If they're gonna continue having this law, they should have a separate prison for political prisoners. In there, they're treated the same as the rest of the other inmates in a way that's way too violent for people who just think differently.
How did you feel when your friends came to pick you up from prison?
Only then did I really appreciate the value of freedom, after being in there for 12 days. I felt freedom as a tangible thing.
I profoundly understand what liberty means after I was there for 12 days. The experience of life without freedom is very concrete. My mom came to wait for me. I'm touched. I was surprised that there were so many media. I believe we were released because I have fought for grassroot activists who are oppressed in the villages. There's a clear picture of what we've done. Today we're oppressed; we really felt it during the past 12 days. My feeling is even stronger when we're separated. We really feel it now that we're freed.
I'll keep reminding myself of this: no matter how much my freedoms have been suppressed in these last 12 days, I learned that my ideals could be transformed into tangible things. And the ideals that I stand firm in can't be stopped by fear.
I'll keep on fighting. It's a beautiful thing, is freedom.
"Pai" - Chaturapat Boonyapatraksa
How do you feel now that you're released?
It was wrong for me to be punished in the first place. It's an issue of expressing differing opinions. Society is full of different people; it's impossible to force everyone to think identically. If there are people who think differently from you or from the state, they shouldn't be punished for that. They wouldn't become political prisoners, but prisoners of conscience.
It's really important that people be more open-minded, listen to reason, and look at the facts before making up their minds. People are capable of seeing what's just and what's not, what's true and what's not. Different kinds of thought must be allowed to circulate in society, and then after that they can make up their minds however they want.
Jail is for people who broke the law, not for prisoners of conscience. The only tool a tyrant has against them is to physically bar them from communicating with society.
Did you exchange any ideas from the other inmates?
Yeah, but I can't say it to the press. They have valuable ideas which society should hear. But since these prisoners are locked away, their ideas are too.
What were living conditions like after you moved from Zone 1 to Zone 3?
At first we were in Zone 1. I tried to adjust myself but I really couldn't. It was the lack of freedom, realized in a physical form.
I'd say that being inside and outside the jail are no different. They really are not different. Having us in jail helps to prove my point.
Now that I've experienced both sides, I say that even more. On both sides of the bars, we have to stay inside a square box.
They took really good care of us since the wardens were informed that we were special prisoners. They fenced us off from the rest of the Zone and let us shower after other inmates.
We assume that inmates are the scum of the earth, the bottom of the barrel. But inside, it doesn't matter who you were before, everyone's equal. Underneath the tattoos and uncouth manners they still have the beauty of their humanity. Each human will always retain that beauty, but society often taints it.
All the inmates have their beautiful humanity, and I could see it. They were kind to us, took care of us.
You guys were put in the front part of the Zone instead of the back, could that be part of why the jail society wasn't so bad?
When I went for a smoke, other inmates would come up and talk to me, asking me what I was arrested for. We would exchange our cases. They're even more knowledgeable than judges regarding legal cases. They can tell the sentence just from hearing a case of an alleged crime.
They've got first-hand experience, that's why. As a law student, I think that judges should come and experience life in the jails, so they know what happens after the sentence is doled out, what the prisoner's life will be like. The Thai judiciary system is focused on punishment, and some people shouldn't be in jail at all while others carry sentences that are way too harsh.
I was glad to be with the other 13 in Zone 1. It raised our morale, and we exchanged jokes and laughs. We also held meetings to monitor our situation. Then they separated us, it was to weaken our resolve and perhaps force us to beg for bail. They didn't succeed, however.
We were in separate zones but our hearts were connected. Come what may! We don't need bail. That's what held us together, even as we were far apart.
Jail isn't a scary place, just a boring one. Don't be afraid of it. I want everyone to experience it just once. Being in jail is just a prerequisite for fighting righteously against the NCPO. If we fight, then we get jailed.
But jail isn't scary at all.
The real scary thing is if we let the dictatorship—as well as the cultural strains that permit it to stay—to continue its tyranny in Thai society.
Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Yiamyut Sutthichaya, and Narisara Suepaisal contributed to this report.
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Maria Bloshteyn received her PhD from Toronto's York University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. Her main scholarly interests lie in the field of literary and cultural exchange between Russia and the United States. She is the author of The Making of a Counter-Culture Icon: Henry Miller's Dostoevsky (University of Toronto Press, 2007) and the translator of Alexander Galich's Dress Rehearsal: A Story in Four Acts and Five Chapters (Slavica, 2009) and Anton Chekhov's The Prank (NYRB Classics, 2015). Her translations have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015).


"Morality is 100 percent possible without religious belief," Will Gervais clarifies. "Just look at Scandinavia, where you see some of the least religious, most peaceful, most cooperative societies in the history of humankind." "And yet," he adds, there is still a paradox. "The intuition that moral evildoers must be atheists seems to persist, even among atheists in largely secular countries." That many religious persons see morality as only contingent upon a divine being troubles some atheists.


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The Bhoyfriends of Sinn Fein.........
Written by: We Must Be Bolder
Friday, 19th October 2018
Fate plays a beautiful hand sometimes. I noticed recently that the centenary of the end of the First World War this year is to land serendipitously on a Sunday.
It is very fitting that this anniversary lands on such a day given its status, significance and poignancy in the calendar of the United Kingdom. All Armistice Sundays are important, it's just that some are more important than others and this forthcoming event is such an example.
It is literally (unless you are extremely young, fit and healthy and lucky enough to remain alive for long enough) a once in a lifetime event to be witness to a centenary moment. I do hope our great Club mark the occasion with something extra special for the reasons listed above. I'm sure we will do what is expected of any fair minded and balanced institution that respects and thinks deeply about the sacrifices of others.
WHAT changed Brendan ?
So just as the annual event takes place the annual anti-event rhetoric gets ramped up. Everyone from Corbyn to adolescent tantrums at universities to Islamists who hate being British and the supporters of Celtic FC seem to find their voice. The yearly cry fest is almost upon us. I can just about hear the gnashing of teeth and the swallowing of bile in the name of peace and anti- British colonialism. The chronically dysfunctional are once again amongst us and seem haunted by the placing of wreaths and if they could claim compensation for PTSD they probably would, paid for by the UK state, of course. The oppressed and the downtrodden are lousy role models as this stance projects the message that their weak status is in fact, somehow their strength. This overt behaviour by supporters of Irish terrorists and Islamic terrorism is the only irrational commodity that they have.
Where are the supporters of Hearts, Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, Livingston et al screaming Brits out and soldier scum whilst celebrating the beheading of a British soldier? The supporters of the clubs mentioned above have not denigrated wreaths and memorials of dead soldiers to my knowledge. Nobody has questioned the logic and annual hateful acts that normal people can set their watch by.
On that note about the frequency, I also had a look at the fixtures over the past few years. Celtic FC have only played at home twice in the last 8 years relating to the nearest footballing weekend before Armistice Sunday. What is at play here? How has the fixture list landed so favourably to the anti-British, pro-IRA Celtic FC support over the past few years? The notion being that, if Celtic FC are playing at home which they should have done at least 3 or 4 times over the past 8 years, they would be in a very difficult position in relation to recognising Armistice Day. Or scrapping it altogether to appease the malignant and callous bastards within their support who cheer the bombing of babies, women, men and non-combatants.
The 11.11.18 at Livingston football club will once again be an utter embarrassment to not just Scottish football but the Scottish society itself. The fools at the SPFL who are engineering these fixtures to enable Celtic FC to continue this unpalatable act are party to a concession too far. I wonder how the 'home' team feel when they look at the fixture list at the beginning of the season and they realise that they are hosting the Bhoyfriends of Sinn Fein for Armistice?
They must recoil, thinking about the supporters of a 'club like no other' being present on their stands, in their stadium, while the hosts put in place a silent tribute while the broadcasters mute microphones to nullify the disruption and the noise that spills with foaming spittle from their stupid lips. It must be like inviting an unwelcome guest to your home and watching helplessly as they defecate on your kitchen table and then blame you for their actions.
As I said above, they need to trot out their victim hood. You need to question why an annual ceremony would traumatise any one person or group so much that it gets the blame for this continuous self doubt and neurotic behaviour. I urge every right minded football supporter in the UK to view the support of Celtic FC as hypersensitive, hysterical, and dangerous to engage with. Lacking in any normal social skills, in short, their behaviour every November is warped, and they are depraved. We've all been hosting them since 1888. Fate plays a terrible hand sometimes.
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Just after 1:30 p.m. on Sunday firefighters were called to a house fire on Snowy River. When they arrived, they noticed the flames were coming from the next street over on the 4000 block of Jack Barnes Ave.
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It is unknown what caused the fire but it did start somewhere in the back of the house and spread through out the second story, eventually causing the roof to cave in.
Officials said there was heavy damage but aren't calling it a total loss yet. The Red Cross was called to assist the family if they needed it.
No one was injured but a fire fighter was treated for dehydration on scene.


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A study by the University of Winnipeg in Canada revealed that it only takes 90 seconds for a consumer to make up their mind about a new product after their initial interaction with it, and that between 62 to 90 percent of their decision is based entirely on the colour scheme of the product.
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" I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past. "
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"Or again, they will tell you that there is going to be a social revolution, a great rising of the poor against the rich; but they never rub it in that France made that magnificent attempt, unaided, and that we and all the world allowed it to be trampled out and forgotten. I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past. Anyone can test this for himself. Read any thirty or forty pages of pamphlets advocating peace in Europe and see how many of them praise the old Popes or Emperors for keeping the peace in Europe. Read any armful of essays and poems in praise of social democracy, and see how many of them praise the old Jacobins who created democracy and died for it." source
"And the upshot of this modern attitude is really this: that men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back." G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
"And there is nothing like dreams for engendering the future." Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
"So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome." George Orwell, London Letter
"And God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for only one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered." Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
"In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream." Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
"I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results." Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"The greatest minds never realise their ideals in any matter;" Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
"I like men who have a future and women who have a past" Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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"I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past." G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World (1910).